Europe's Leading Builder Receives Steady Influx Of Export Orders
World shipbuilding is undergoing
a period of positive transition. Prospects
in the world shipbuilding
market appear to be brightening
after several years of downturn.
Throughout all of this period,

Nichols Brothers Boat Builders,
Inc., Whidbey Island, Wash., recently
christened the second of two
catamaran passenger ferries it has
built for the U.S. Army for use in
the Marshall Islands.
Built under a $1.8-million contract,
the 72-foot FB-817

Moss Point Marine, Inc., Escatawpa,
Miss., has delivered the Carteret,
a new 161-foot ferry to the
State of North Carolina. The vessel
can transport 200 passengers and 30
autos.
The $2.7-million, all-steel Carteret
is 161 feet long, with a 50-foot
beam and 12.

Sperry Marine was honored at the
annual banquet of the National Marine
Electronics Association
(NMEA) when the association presented
its 1990 Products Award to
the Sperry Marine gyrocompass system.
The NMEA jury of industry sales
and technical

Avondale Industries, Inc., New
Orleans, La., has signed a letter of
intent for the purchase of Lockheed
Shipbuilding Company's Gulfport
Marine Division, Gulfport, Miss.
The purchase price has been set at
$21,000,000.
At present, the Gulfport facility
has U.

One of Canada's largest shipyards,
MIL-Davie, Inc., Lauzon,
Quebec, has signed a three-year collective
agreement with unions representing
the yard's 1,800 production
workers which will achieve
greatly increased efficiency and
competitiveness by introducing new
working methods,

Saab's new computerized cargo handling system,
the MaC/501, was recently selected by Swedish
shipowner United Tankers for installation
on its new product tankers. The two vessels have
been ordered at the Uljanik shipyard in Yugoslavia
(hull nos.

Cast Containers S.A. of Fribourg,
Switzerland, recently announced
that the Cast Group has
just ordered three new vessels to
be built in Korea for its North
Atlantic Container Service. This
order is in addition to three container
vessels contracted for in
Yugoslavia earlier this year.

Campbell Industries of San Diego
launched the new tuna superseiner
Kukulkan recently, adding
impetus to the rapidly developing
fisheries of Mexico. She is the
first of two such seiners ordered
by Atunera del Carmen, an association
of veteran fishing people
in the state of Campeche.